Angela
Angela is ranked 282nd among girls in 2024 (1,117 births). Its best rank was 5th, in 1974–1976.
- Rank in 2024
- #282down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1170.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 197125,900 births
- Best rank
- #5first in 1974
- Since 1880
- 674,615people given the name
The story in the numbers
672,480 girls have been named Angela in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 25,900 births — 1.6% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 1,117 births in 2024, against 25,900 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 33%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 47 of them in the top 100 and 15 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,135 boys have also been given it, 0.32% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Angela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 232 | |
| 1890s | 671 | |
| 1900s | 1,400 | |
| 1910s | 5,518 | |
| 1920s | 6,273 | |
| 1930s | 6,518 | |
| 1940s | 12,258 | |
| 1950s | 40,357 | |
| 1960s | 159,292 | |
| 1970s | 225,266 | |
| 1980s | 116,594 | |
| 1990s | 45,172 | |
| 2000s | 31,319 | |
| 2010s | 15,488 | |
| 2020s | 6,122 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Angela was the 6th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Angela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jodiepeak 1970
- Karripeak 1976
- Ladawnpeak 1971
- Kerriepeak 1971
- Shonapeak 1970
- Karrypeak 1971
- Demetricepeak 1975
- Melyndapeak 1973
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.